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Sunday Weekly Review
September 11, 2005(broadcast stream
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Sometimes there’s just too much news…
The California Legislature Passes Equal Marriage Laws for ALL its Citizens
It’s not just the courts now. Elected representatives are recognizing that Americans do deserve equal protection under the law, as our Constitution provides. There is still a place for religious bigots though: it’s called Iran. Don’t you dare veto this one, Schwarzenneggar….
Chief Justice Roberts?
Let’s let the vacancy last a little longer. John Paul Stevens, appointed by Gerald Ford (who would be considered a raving liberal by the Fox Propaganda Channel today) is the Acting Chief Justice. I can live with that for a little while.
The 4th Anniversary of 9/11 Pales in Comparison to the Greater Death and Destruction Caused by Past and Continuing Government Failures to Aid Hurricane Katrina Victims
Four years ago today, the mass murder of 3000 Americans on September 11, 2001 gave the President the excuse he needed to take us to an endless war and occupation that has thus far cost another almost 2000 American lives, 10,000+ wounded, and 30,000+ Iraqi dead. It also gave the President the excuse he needed to dismantle FEMA, one of the best government organizations under Clinton, so that it could no longer help the victims of the New Orleans flood.
The Bush Administration, in its misuse of 9/11, has done more damage to America and Americans that Osama Bin Laden did four years ago today….
Meanwhile, Back in Iraq…
We’ve shown as little capability to fix that country’s infrastructure as we have to shore up our own. Only we have an extra problem there. Folks are shooting at us. Even the radical Bushies don’t seem to believe their own rhetoric anymore about how “the people will welcome us as liberators” and “we will forcibly create a new Democratic, peaceful Middle East with abundant American oil whether the Iraqi People like it or not!” Ahem…what are we fighting for again? Who do you think will be the last person to die for a mistake?
The Utter Depravity that is George Bush
In Bush’s America, thousands must die if it will help the President one iota politically. If at any point you ever lack complete disgust for our President, just click this link, but bring a wastebasket nearby to catch your vomit.
And Finally, the Definition of “Compassionate Conservatism”
“And so many of the people in the arenas here, you know, were underprivileged anyway. This is working very well for them…. What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas”
— Barbara Bush, on the evacuees from the New Orleans Superdome to the Houston Astrodome
So Long Chief Justice Rehnquist
September 8, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
Our Chief Justice Rehnquist was from the old school of Americans racists: the kind that didn’t have to hide it. While he was reportedly a “nice regular guy” in private, Rehnquist’s opinions were great examples of the arrogance of power. He didn’t feel the need to justify or explain his decisions. Many of his rulings were classic: “I say so, because I’m the Chief Justice” without basis in law or reason.
How will the next Chief Justice be different?
Who is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela?
September 7, 2005Guest: Eva Golinger, Author of The Chavez Code: Cracking
U.S. Intervention in Venezuela
Who is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela?
And why does Pat Robertson want to kill him?
Comment from Golinger’s book: “Domestically, the Venezuelan government is investing substantial resources in social programs like healthcare, education and job training, what Chavez has labeled 21st century socialism. This model has apparently angered many in the Bush administration.”
Non-Debate Tuesday
September 6, 2005(broadcast stream) (.mp3 download Right-click,”Save Target as”,”Save”)
Mark had planned today to debate former Radical Leftist and now Radical Right-Wing writer and political commentator, David Horowitz, but David Horowitz did not show. That debate has been rescheduled to Sunday, September 18. And the blog comments originally posted here have been moved to that day.
Instead, today, I focused on the awful Government response to Hurricane Katrina and particular, an INSIDE SCOOP, that has gotten insufficient attention to date: why is the Government funneling cash from well-wishers to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina to Pat Robertson?
See FEMA website in Spanish designating only the Red Cross, Robertson’s “Operation Blessing,” and America’s Second Harvest Bank as places for Americans to send cash donations.
Congratulations, Pat! You have profitted handsomely from the New Orleans misery. God must have granted you your wish after all!!!
Pat Robertson successfully profitted from the Rwandan genocide as well. Most aid to those victims was diverted to Robertson’s diamond mines, for which he shares profits with brutal dictator, murderer-of-parents-to-make-armies-of-child Charles Taylor of Liberia.
Isn’t it “nice” to have our Government — which already gave $25 million in taxpayer funds to Robertson — continuing to indirectly support Taylor through Robertson? When will Christians tell Pat Robertson that he can go to hell….or that he need not do, because he is already there!!!
And shouldn’t Americans — anxious to help Katrina victims — know that the Government is pushing their money to go instead into diamond mines to likely help one of the most vicious murderers of our time (Charles Taylor)?
Labor Day – No Show
September 5, 2005Today, Talk Star will replay last Thursday’s show: The Battle of New Orleans. No live callers.
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Guest: Eric Holdeman, Director of the Office of Emergency Management for Seattle and King County, Washington
“It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to
handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the
price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished,
and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security
issue for us.”
— Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish,
Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
For more information, see the sites below:
Even the very conservative Chicago Tribune points the finger squarely at Bush’s mismanagement of FEMA as the reason so many people suffered
Details on the Failures of the Bush Administration to Protect New Orleans
Several articles from the New Orleans Times-Picayune warning of the danger to come from a Category 5 hurricane
Eric Holdeman’s op-ed in The Washington Post
Picture of Bush fiddling as New Orleans flooded
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